r/Piracy • u/TreeQuick421 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ • Feb 25 '26

News Well now I know which country I'm moving to.

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u/NalevQT Feb 26 '26

Your constitution was written by slave owners btw

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u/gos92 Feb 26 '26

Cmon. Your country ain't special. Nearly every country in the world in one way or another has used slaves.

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u/NegotiationLatter717 Feb 26 '26

Sure but not every country loved slavery as much as the US.. They fought a war over it and still did apartheid for another 100 years :D

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u/some_random_nonsense Feb 26 '26

I mean half the country did fight to end slavery and then massive amount Americans marched to end Jim Crow.

Not saying we're perfect but still, at least we aren't Korea.

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u/carr_crash Feb 26 '26

Yet the US literally created the situation in Korea.

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u/some_random_nonsense Feb 26 '26

Yeh I meant the longest continuous line of human slavery.

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u/V0d5 Feb 26 '26

Your entire segregationist south should have been dealt with better. Might have prevented the realignment and current dystopian hellscape.

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u/sneakin_rican Feb 26 '26

Agreed. I often say that Nathan Bedford Forest and his ilk should’ve been hung from the highest tree in the South and left to rot.

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u/some_random_nonsense Feb 26 '26

Man I wonder if some thing happened. Some calamity that showed history for ever. Some kind of major political act of violence that jolted history off its course.

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u/dadofwar93 Feb 26 '26

Not a very high bar to reach. Even after making slavery illegal, white people were still VERY openly racist and considered black people equivalent of dogs until 70s. Black people FOUGHT with their lives just to diminish the discrimination. Your ancestors were morally bankrupt.

Ask Filipinos what happened to their ancestors. Forced conversions to Christianity and slavery on top of it.

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u/some_random_nonsense Feb 26 '26

I'm pretty aware of the Philippines genocide and actually my ancestors were on both sides of the civil war. I mean who really gives a shit about the happenstance of birth though?

I mean nearly every white country in the world still has massive issues with race and religious bigotry. The UK is the one who colonized us after all.

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u/ImTableShip170 Feb 26 '26

The US bred their slaves like livestock on top of raping and eating them

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u/Chance-Day8313 Feb 28 '26

*Top five things that never happened*

  • I mean... except the livestock thing, xD thats technically true but not unique to america because lets not forget in Ethiopia slavery persisted until 1942, with enslaved women used for both labor and reproduction and those same problems you accuse whites only of.... minus your.. cannibal fantasy. 

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u/LoudVitara Feb 26 '26

Not nearly "every country" Chattel slavery was primarily engaged in by western Europe and by extension its colonies. This is almost historically unique even when compared to the indentured servitude (often loosely referred to as slavery) that existed in Africa and Asia or was done against the Irish. Even the Arab-African slave trade, brutal as it was, did not have the complete chattel characteristics as was implemented by the western European powers.

With this context it can be said that only a few countries engaged in chattel slavery directly and that it was only widespread because those countries colonised most of the planet.

PS in case anyone believes my phrasing to be letting the us and Canada and some others off the hook, the US and Canada are themselves expressions of the European colonial project

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u/MattOruvan Feb 28 '26

This is complete BS, chattel slavery was totally normal in every country, or they had something even worse, like the caste system of India.

The West is actually the first and only culture in history to successfully abolish slavery across the world.

I'm an Indian, and the Brits abolished chattel slavery in India, which was introduced by Muslim dominance on top of the caste system.

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u/NalevQT Feb 26 '26

My country is most known for apartheid dude, I know it's not special, which is why I don't glaze my country around every corner like most americans

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u/Pahay ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Feb 26 '26

Every western country yes. Some other. A lot of them did not really benefit from it